Testrun Meme - March

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This is an open testrun meme. Posts here may be used in lieu of a sample entry for any applications. For your convenience, we've provided a few prompts, but feel free to make your own!

1. Team Evolution is looking to set up a new machine test near Union. Are you here to help? Stop them? Observe?

2. A day at the races! Today in the Rhyhorn track, it's a complex course with several barricades, vertical climbs, and downhill slopes. Are you a racer? Spectator? What brings you here this fine day?

3. You're out exploring, be it at sea, or perhaps expanding into new, uncharted territories. Where are you? What are you doing?

4. Pokemon Battle! Perhaps it's training, perhaps you're protecting something important, perhaps you're striking out against something vile. Why are you in this fight and what are you doing?

5. Wildcard! Invent a prompt!

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[threemoms]

[ Hotaru doesn't reply to that. Instead, she picks up the other lamp she was eying. ] And this one, too!

[ But doesn't Hotaru look like she's having fun? Doesn't that make all of this worthwhile? ]

[actsmagnificent]

[ For you, maybe. Sure. Still, it's the first time the girl has acted anything close to her age, and even if that's not quite heartwarming it's....what? A good omen, perhaps.

Haruka doesn't even ask whether Hotaru was going to try and pay for these. She just pulls out her wallet, takes the lamps to the shopkeeper, and trades a bit of meaningless, if pleasant, smalltalk while making the purchases. There you go. The shopkeeper begins boxing them up so they won't get broken in transit, shooting glances at Haruka as if trying to figure out where he's seen that young man before.

Said young man, however, is addressing his companion. ] Was there anywhere else on your shopping list?

[ In for a penny, in for a pound. Whatever that saying means. ]

[threemoms]

Ah... [ Truthfully, there wasn't. And as fun as the past few minutes had been, she doesn't have anything else she needs to do. ] No. I was just browsing for lamps.

[ She glances at the boxes, then back to Haruka. ] And... thank you.

[actsmagnificent]

[ Haruka shrugs, careful that this doesn't upset her grip on the lamp boxes. ] Don't mention it.

[ Seriously, don't. But her shoulders relax. She appreciates the thought, all the same.

They're back out on the street before she finally asks the obvious question. ] So. Lamps, huh?

[threemoms]

...Is there something wrong with liking lamps?

[ Is it considered weird? ...It's considered weird, isn't it? ]

[actsmagnificent]

[ Haruka regularly says things like "I am the wind" and means it. You don't have to worry about weird. ]

Not really. It's just a first.

[ And somehow humanizing. She adjusts her grip on the packages. ] I've never been a collector, myself.

[ It's hard to collect things to ride when the things you ride are sentient. She's yet to find a Rhyhorn she likes more than World Shaking. ]

[threemoms]

[ Hmm. ] I remember having a lot of lamps, when I was younger. [ Back when she lived in Union City, before the lab accident that caused her father to take her and flee the city.

That was a long time ago, though. She couldn't remember much from back then. She had managed to get a hold of a few lamps in the lab, but that was different.

Not that she was going to divulge that much information. She was just trying to... converse. ]

[actsmagnificent]

[ Younger? Oh, so before the.....yeah. This isn't awkward. Haruka looks away. ] I see.

[ She doesn't look judgmental or harsh, though. Just thoughtful. And maybe even a little sad. ]